Back to School

I was prompted to start thinking about my education (or lack there of) back in May when my job search wasn't looking so well. I'm not under-qualified, I'm just suffering from an already narrow job market being squished even more by the under performing economy. So anyway, to get unemployment I had to go to a meeting about how to make myself more employable and I stumbled across a program that's funded by the state to help people augment their experience or education with training certificates relevant to their field. This program wont get me the full associates degree, but it will get me all my under division classes for an associates and two certificates for programming, one in C++ and one in Java. Since I've already done a lot of my general education I'll only have about 2 semesters left of course work after this year to get my associates. All the under division classes (a full years worth) will be paid for by unemployment and the rest will come out of my pocket. Not a bad deal really. When I'm done with my associates degree Drew should be done with his Masters. At that point we'll have to evaluate what our five year plan is and see if a bachelors degree is in my future as well.

I'm so excited about this endeavor that I've been reading about my class topics ahead of time. So much so that after the first day of classes I've finished both assignments that are due next Monday. If I can keep 7 days ahead of the class I think this will be a low stress summer.